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Jean Toomer · 1923
Canon spine row 140. Jean Toomer — Cane. Era: 1923. Lang: English (US).
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Black Southern beauty, desire, and racial terror interweave in lyric fragments that insist the body and the land cannot be separated from each other.
embodiment
Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon … Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down.
CANE-RC-004The dance takes blood from their minds and packs it, tingling, in the torsos of their swaying bodies … They are a dizzy blood clot on a gyrating floor.
CANE-RC-061trauma-and-survival
Tom's wrists were bound. The big man shoved him to the well … Two deaths for a godam nigger.
CANE-RC-029Dear Jesus, do not chain me to myself and set these hills and valleys … so close to me that I cannot reach them. There is a radiant beauty in the night that touches and … tortures me.
CANE-RC-064self-and-identity
From the South. What does that mean, precisely, except that you'll love or hate a nigger? … With his own glow, he seeks to penetrate a dark pane.
CANE-RC-059You sit there like a black hound spiked to an ivory pedestal … Mumblin, feedin that ornery thing thats livin on my insides.
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